Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Microbial metabolite sensor GPR43 controls severity of experimental GVHD

  • Hideaki Fujiwara,
  • Melissa D. Docampo,
  • Mary Riwes,
  • Daniel Peltier,
  • Tomomi Toubai,
  • Israel Henig,
  • S. Julia Wu,
  • Stephanie Kim,
  • Austin Taylor,
  • Stuart Brabbs,
  • Chen Liu,
  • Cynthia Zajac,
  • Katherine Oravecz-Wilson,
  • Yaping Sun,
  • Gabriel Núñez,
  • John E. Levine,
  • Marcel R.M. van den Brink,
  • James L. M. Ferrara,
  • Pavan Reddy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06048-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The microbial metabolite sensor GPR43 has been previously shown to be a crucial modulator of immune responses. Here the authors show GPR43 is required for controlling disease pathology severity in the context of experimental models of GVHD.